Lenovo and Pivot3, a provider of ‘hyper-converged infrastructure’ solutions, have struck a deal to develop and sell edge computing products for smart city security. The city of Bogota, in Colombia, has already hooked up 3,000 surveillance cameras to their new system.
Much of the growth...
Sigfox operator UnaBiz has raised over $10 million in Series A funding to develop ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) infrastructure and services in Singapore and Taiwan. The funding included investments from Japanese operator KDDI and French electric utility ENGIE.
Further investments came from angel investors in Singapore, as...
Dell Technologies will release a number of pre-integrated and pre-tested computer-vision and machine-intelligence bundles for its resellers to more easily cater to certain edge-computing and internet-of-things use cases.
The bundles, billed as secure and scalable, offer storage, security, network and data management, and orchestration. They...
Nokia's new €500 million loan from the European Investment Bank for 5G research and developnent will boost the region's drive for industrial and economic transformation, as US and Asian markets push ahead.
Nokia told Enterprise IoT Insights 5G will shift the European economy up a...
UK telecoms provider BT is to underpin the delivery of flood response mechanisms with an ‘internet of things’ (IoT) platform for the Environment Agency in England.
BT has been contract by infrastructure and support services company Stobart Group, as part of its four-year project with...
Data does not always tell the truth; machines lie. Algorithmic bias means fairness and equality, the ultimate promises made by technology to re-write the rulebook, remain relative.
“Data reflects the social, historical and political conditions in which it was created. Artificial intelligence systems ‘learn’ based...
The city of Arlington, in Texas, has approved a one-year trial of autonomous vehicles in its ‘entertainment’ district, serving the home stadiums of both the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers.
California-based self-driving car company Drive.ai will supply three self-driving three-passenger vans to the city,...
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News that the City of Chicago has already upgraded over 76,000 street lights to adpative smart lighting sounds impressive. Indeed, the 12-month swap out programme places Chicago among the...
The city’s smart lighting initiative stipulates the replacement of 270,000 lights across Chicago
Chicago has already installed over 76,000 new LED smart streetlight fixtures in each of the city’s 50 wards in the first year of the city’s smart lighting program. Progress so far on...
UK firm Telensa will provide an intelligent street lighting system in a new smart city development, in the centre of Maroochydore, on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, which covers beach resorts and rural hinterland in southern Queensland.
Telensa, a specialist in connected street lighting, will deploy its...
The high speeds and low latencies of 5G networks lend themselves to smart cities. Next generation wireless networks will be an essential weapon in the arsenals of city administrations, reckons Verizon.
The US operator, which last week confirmed Indianapolis as the final centre for its...
The smart traffic initiative stipulates the deployment of 450 smart parking sensors
The government of Australia announced the launch of a project to install 450 smart parking sensors to benefit residents in the country’s Central Coast area.
Federal Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities Paul Fletcher...
After suburban lifestyles being the norm for generations of Americans, the pendulum is beginning to swing back towards urbanism: the United Nations says 54% of the world’s population lives in urban areas today, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66% by 2050....
The United Nations (UN) has ranked its top 10 countries for digital governance, and placed Denmark top for provision of online services. Australia, South Korea, the United Kingdom and Sweden round out the top five.
The UN’s Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) collated...
Beth Noveck has been appointed as New Jersey’s first chief information officer (CIO). New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said Noveck will “create a 21st century government that makes decisions by tapping high-quality data and diverse collective intelligence.”
Noveck is a professor in the technology, culture,...
The team of researches have tested smart city systems from Libelium, Echelon and Battelle
A team of researchers from Threatcare and IBM X-Force Red have joined forces to test several smart city devices, with the specific goal of finding vulnerabilities in smart city systems.
Earlier this...
Camden, known for its back-street stalls and alternative night life, has solidified itself as a smart borough using data analytics to save over £63 million over three years. In a bid to improve the lives of Camden’s 240,000 residents, and tattoo-loving tourists, the council...
Low-power wide-area (LPWA) network provider SenRa has struck a deal with location and tracking company PNI Sensor to bring LoRaWAN based smart parking to India. It is the latest in a number of major LoRaWAN deployments in Asia Pacific region, covering also smart city...
Itron said it is seeing a high level of interest from customers for the firm’s new smart gas and water meters
U.S. firm Itron, which focuses on technology solutions for energy and water water resource management, is on track to complete the full integration of...
Visual surveillance, public transport, and street lighting will command nearly one quarter of spending by smart cities this year, according to new figures from research house IDC.
The Asia-Pacific region, including China and Japan, will account for 42 per cent of spending in 2018, followed...
Nokia is to offer GE’s CityIQ platform technology to municipalities in Canada to repurpose outdoor street lighting into digital infrastructure, and help with common challenges like parking and traffic management, public safety enhancements, and weather and air quality monitoring.
The CityIQ platform, from GE’s lighting...
LEDs are lighting up smart cities across the world, and staring to porvide a platform for even smarter sensors and technologies.
Street lighting is now the default entry point for smart technologies into city environments. Navigant Research has evaluated 14 vendors in the street lighting...
Cisco is to invest $100 million in the UK to help the UK government with its ‘industrial strategy’ to become a leading economy for emerging digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous vehicles.
As part of the investment, Cisco and University College London (UCL)...
Itron said the deployment of sensors and software-as-a-service will allow the city of Pearland to improve delivery of water to the city’s 120,000 customers
U.S. firm Itron, a technology company that specializes in products and services for energy and water resource management, will install its...
